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Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information
Patrick Allo (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3867-6
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208 pages
May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

1 Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information (PATRICK ALLO).

Knowledge.

2 The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival (SHERRILYN ROUSH).

3 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab (VINCENT F. HENDRICKS).

Agency.

4 Meeting Floridi’s Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge-Game Test for Self-Consciousness (SELMER BRINGSJORD).

Semantic Information.

5 Information Without Truth (ANDREA SCARANTINO AND GUALTIERO PICCININI).

6 Information and Knowledge a la Floridi (FRED ADAMS).

Methodology.

7 Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science (TIMOTHY COLBURN AND GARY SHUTE).

Metaphysics.

8 Structuralism and Information (OTA VIO BUENO).

Ethics.

9 Why Information Ethics Must Begin with Virtue Ethics (RICHARD VOLKMAN).

Replies.

10 The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later (LUCIANO FLORIDI).

Epilogue.

11 Philosophy in the Information Age (TERRELL WARD BYNUM).

Index.

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